Most of us have enough excuses to last a lifetime. The sooner we let go of them and get on with living, the better off we are.

Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy.

The disillusionment with our own abilities is, perhaps, one of the most important things that can ever happen to us.

Life becomes precious and more special to us when we look for the little everyday miracles and get excited about the privileges of simply being human

It's not so much what happens to us, as what happens in us that counts.

Our theology must become biography.

There is no better education than your own failures, if you've the eyes to see. We must have the courage to fail. It's evidence that we're risking to be our best.

Learning patience takes a lot of patience!

It takes time to be a good father. It takes effort - trying, failing, and trying again.

I believe that pain and suffering can either be a prison or a prism.

All of our theology must eventually become biography.

I am not elevating women to sainthood, nor am I suggesting that all women share the same views, or that all women are good and all men bad.

But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?

To be well in your mind you have first to be free.

The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn.

by and large, nothing is as bad as you fear, or as good as you hope.

Once you've lived in France, you don't want to live anywhere else, including France.

I love a selfie in the mirror.

One way to stay grounded in the entertainment industry is to surround yourself with very good people that will constantly remind you how uncool you are.

Dialogue starts with the willingness to challenge our own thinking, to recognize that any certainty we have is, at best, a hypothesis about the world.

Whenever you write on a subject that questions the status quo, there are bound to be many who wrestle with the issues